Familiar failings from Tottenham, proof that a change of management cannot immediately cure previous ills. Though where last season in the Premier League, there was rarely anything other than surrender, there is a fighting spirit within Thomas Frank’s team.
Brighton scored two fine first-half goals, Yankuba Minteh’s solo effort followed by an opportunistic long-range strike from Yasin Ayari, in a 45 minutes where Tottenham dominated possession but left open the back door. Richarlison’s poked goal before half-time set up a second-half comeback completed by Jan Paul van Hecke’s own-goal blunder under heavy Spurs pressure.
